I am going to start breeding a pair a chickens this summer and also have considered growing my own feed. The plant species that I am going to try first is the Siberian Pea Tree (Caragana arborescens). I will plant several of these on a e/w row and manage them in a coppicing technique to...
I you had to select 2 chickens and only 2 to raise as a perpetual meat source what would you choose? My local ordinance stipulates a 2 poultry/fowl species limit. I figured a breeding pair of birds would be best, and if the young were consumed I would still be within the letter of the law...
you may find success in the Cochin, a "excellent brooder, good mother, excellent foster mother" from Henderson's http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html